#&& Ashton Anchors

[third-half]

Belated birthday gift for @cutepiku featuring her Star Ocean OTP~

[larthrum]

dragon cuddles

[daily-rayless]

Happy Birthday to Ashton Anchors from Star Ocean 2. You may also wish a happy birthday to the two dragons possessing him, if you wish.

[tatibana-tsuki]

2024描き初め　今年もよろしくお願いします

[anonfeather]

Do you like Star Ocean?

Hiya!

Since the SO2 remake, I've been rediscovering my love for the franchise. So I made a little discord server for likeminded fans to hangout.

You do fanart? Write fanfic or have a ton of plot bunnies you wanna share? Have Headcanons? Shipping favourite?

You're welcome to join and chat :D

If the invite link doesn't work, poke me, I'll find a different way to invite you. Or you can find me on discord, I have the same handle as tumblr

[valeriewarrior137]

The lookalikes, two from Square Enix, two drawn by Akira Toriyama.

[dusk-bun]

Cuddle

I saw some very cute artworks of Ashton braiding Dias hair and wanted to join in with a colored sketch at least ;; 💕

[foxykawaiiart]

Sweet and comfy Aolynn the wholesome JRPG & Indie game streamer and VA cosplaying Ashton Anchors from Star Ocean! 💙

Aolynn’s twitch

Reblogs are appreciated!! <3

[kat-dezaraye]

Added Celine and Bowman to my Etsy store recently. I was hoping to have Opera, Precis, Dias, and Leon done in time for the SacAnime Convention, but, alas, they will have to come at a later time.

[so2collection]

New update!

Spell animations that are longer can be quick skipped with a single button press.

Possesed Ashton is now Creepy Ashton or Weepy Ashton.

Link:

Why is no one talking about the Star Ocean Second Story R demo from Gamescom?

I haven't seen any US Youtube channels or twitter channels talk about this, so I wanted to make a quick summary of some features we've learned through recent announcements and the demo preview!

Here are the new features we found out about so far:

3 hit basic attack combos (from the PSP version) stayed. We knew this from previous trailers, but I'm noting it again.

Assist Characters get EXP (From what we can tell this doesn't apply to Reserve members, which can prevent overleveling / SP waste, which I'm happy about) You can see this below the party's EXP increases. This is also a good look at the Battle Results menu

Bonus gauge returns from 3/4, although we don't know a lot about it. This includes Chain Battles! (I hope we get EXP or Fol bonus returning but not the horrible, easy-to-break system 3 had.)

Our first look at the Field Menu! Includes full portraits, a reorganized menu, and some party banter

Party banter is present on the menu AND in the field

We also see a mini-map in the field, which has been previously shown but is a new addition

Battles are no longer random / visible enemies

The player can now gain battle initiative / back strikes, resulting in enemies being stunned at the start of battle (this isn't present in the original versions of SO2)

First look at the loading screen! (Come on, Bunny!)

That's all the new changes I've found so far. If there's any I missed, let me know!

View the original video where this information was obtained here.

[danwhobrowses]

Prefacing that, again time zones, I've only been able to glean the latest CR episode and that I do not agree with their in-character opinions on the gods, I'd like to remind fans to try and not get super ugly about their criticism of Ashton Greymoore.

I'll be the first to throw my hands up and say they're among my favourite C3 characters so there may be bias, but I've been getting flashes of the Shard Incident from reactions towards their recent and vocal disdain for the gods. Disagree with them all you want, Taliesin knows that the gods can't simply leave since they're the one who said that the Wildmother would die if she left, but understand that it's a character flaw and if you recall the hardships of their backstory, the unanswered prayers, and that their only exchanges with the gods have required them to do something or, with the Dawnfather Angel, have been met with cold disregard, it's understandable how they got to feeling that way. Ashton has lived alone and been told they don't matter for a lot of their life; no gods, no family, no nurturing presence to guide them, they've been abandoned, used, and - with additional influence by the Dominox accusing them of wanting FCG to die - are currently between blaming themselves and the Changebringer for their closest friend's death.

Make no mistake Ashton is wrong, I think the self-confessed hypocrite with also self-confessed poor morality knows that deep down, or at least knows that they're not the kind of person who should be in charge. Vassalheim is a difficult place for a titan vessel to be in so it is unsure what they will do from here; perhaps investigate the Earth Titan? Commune with the Emperor and Empress? Or maybe be brought to the gods and be able to vent or reconcile with them (and maybe get some closure with FCG, speak with his spirit as like a mediator between the Hells and the Gods)? But it feels like Taliesin is being vocal for a reason, and it's either to invite Matt to challenge it (I've said in other comments but I would love if Ashton found some comfort, not worship or a pact but maybe just a dialogue, in the Everlight: a goddess of healing, temperance and redemption - all of which would help Ashton mentally - as unlikely as it'd be) or find another maybe primordial route to give Ashton a narrative tether towards stopping Predathos.

Let's just, not be cruel about the character, they are more than just their bad trauma and grief-led opinion on gods remember?

[kindahoping4forever]

When We Were Young Fest - 22 October 2023

📸: Yising Kao

[countlessrealities]

Unconventional first meetings

@muses-inn sent: [ MIXED ] : in a restaurant or cafe, both muses’ orders are swapped due to a mix up (Morty getting served the 3 cups of water that Ashton ordered for Creepy, Weepy and himself)

In spite of what he might say while he and Rick were going through a fight, Morty doesn't make it a habit to go on adventures on his own. At most, he heads back to the places where Rick's drunk rampages have created more trouble than favour and fixes them, so that they don't have yet another piece of the multiverse hunting them down, but those trips don't count as adventures in his book. Not really.

After all, as his grandfather would say, adventures, to be called such, need four things: conflict, stakes, a way for Rick to benefit from them and, clearly, the two of them as a duo. Even if he wouldn't admit it, to avoid being mocked, the boy is extremely fond of this definition.

So, him sitting in a tavern in a world that's a mixture between high fantasy and sci-fi counts, as most, as an interdimensional trek. Not that it could have been more than that. He knows too well what the scientist thinks of that sort of planets.

Morty's thoughts are abruptly interrupted as three cups of water are set down in front of him, instead of the slightly alcoholic local drink he has ordered. The teen stares at the for a long moment, eyes wide with confusion, and then whips his head up to inform the server of the mishap...just to find out that they have already walked away.

Oh geez, this is really awkward.

"...Uh..." He lets out, carefully looking around for a group who might have ordered the three cups of water.

Most of the patrons are alone or in pairs, so he has no luck until his eyes land on a guy who has two dragons' heads sprouting out of his back. Is that kind of thing normal around there?

Still, he seems to be the only one who counts as a "trio", so the teen gets up, balancing the three cups in his hands, and carries the drinks over to the man's table.

"H-Hey, sorry for bothering you, but...Uh, I-I think these were meant for you and your...friends?" Amber eyes skittishly glanced at the dragons. They don't seem particularly friendly or cheerful. "A-Anyway, here's your...water."

[muses0fgracie]

@muses-inn sent: “Everything’s going to be fine. You’ll see.“ (Ashton to Unico)

Beauty and the Beast starters | Not Accepting

He had gotten himself stuck in a trap while exploring this new place he'd woken up in, and his mind and memories hurt when he tried to think about how he could have possibly ended up here.

...And why he had felt the gentle breeze of the West Wind as he was just opening his eyes...

But while wandering to find out what this place was, he had been caught in a snare trap. It was a miracle that he was not dead (as the snares had only wrapped around his legs and body), but it was still very scary.

This humanoid stranger had noticed and offered to help, which Unico was grateful for, although the baby unicorn was understandably nervous. What if one wrong move would activate more snares?

“Everything’s going to be fine. You’ll see.“

Unico tried to calm himself down when the other spoke those words; despite his fears, he had a feeling that panicking would most likely worsen things more than the other doing something incorrectly. So he took a deep breath and tried to stop shaking to the best of his ability, in order to allow the other to properly set him free.

"O-Okay..." He kept one eye open to watch, anxiously hoping it wouldn't hurt.

[polyamships]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Ocean: The Second Story | Second Evolution Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ashton Anchors/Noel Chandler/Dias Flac/Claude C. Kenny Characters: Ashton Anchors, Claude C. Kenny, Dias Flac, Noel Chandler Additional Tags: polyamships' Polyam Shipping Days, Domestic Fluff, Ficlet, Community: fourormore Series: Part 57 of Fills for 100ships - Jan 2022 to ? Summary:

The four have a new home. (Set at some point after The Road to Ell.)

[anonfeather]

Because you can't rewatch the scenes in Star Ocean 2, I quickly grabbed my phone to record because I probably would want to watch it again, and I didn't find the Japanese dub of this ending...

(here's the English version I found on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjX-2uzMrrA&list=PL9H9CjgxF8rjB-FmZGigfcbBDWe-LrAne&index=42 Thank you @Cat Painter )

Anyways, this is what made me start shipping them.. Below, my first fic of them